@Hoss The death knell was the moment kikes and boomers shifted the real-estate market from commodities to financials in the 1980s. The financialization of the real-estate market was the first and last nail in the coffin for the U.S. economy. They turned houses into yu-gi-oh cards.
It's easy to forget that this catastrophic decline started within the lifetime of most of the people still alive today. It's not irreversible, in fact it will likely implode itself in due time. Unfortunately cycles like this take multiple decades to play out and never go down without a fight.